The Kessler syndrome is a scenario where, if too many collisions occur between pieces of space debris, low earth orbit will become filled with clouds of tiny particles. All those particles floating around... continue reading

posted by newtboy 5 months ago • 55 views • 7:34

Reaching the Andromeda Galaxy in Just a Minute! Brian Cox discusses the concept of time and distance contraction at speeds close to the speed of light. He explains that for objects moving near light... continue reading

posted by BSR 5 months 3 weeks ago • 93 views

Fire Ants! It has been adapting, evolving for 150 million years 14 000 species they are nearly everywhere thriving.

posted by BSR 6 months 2 weeks ago • 53 views • 48:05

West Metro Fire said a burning bird started a small grass fire near The Fort restaurant in Morrison on Wednesday. Obviously fake news covering up something….birds aren’t real!

posted by newtboy 8 months 2 weeks ago • 129 views • 1:31

We completed a 3 night 4 day run on the Lost Coast from south to north. We stayed at Usal, Tolkan and Mattole campgrounds. We didn’t need 4wd at all as it was dry, but it was a very pretty drive. It’s... continue reading

posted by newtboy 8 months 3 weeks ago • 78 views • 13:28

Near San Diego, California, there's a rotating house: and somehow, all the utilities, the electricity, gas and water, work even on the rotating part. How's that possible?

posted by BSR 1 year 9 months 2 weeks ago • 283 views • 7:31

No one truly knows what happens when we die, but chances are you've heard about the 'white light' that people sometimes see when they've had a near death experience. So is that evidence of an afterlife,... continue reading

posted by BSR 2 years 9 months 1 week ago • 54 views • 2:44

The story behind the new Terry Pratchett audiobooks - my all time favorite author. Can't wait to hear them! YT: This documentary follows Penguin Audio's ambitious project of turning the entire Discworld... continue reading

posted by Zawash 2 years 11 months 4 weeks ago • 32 views • 21:33

Let’s not resigns ourselves to fatality. Solutions exist. Together we can do more to decrease risks on the normal route to Mont-Blanc. The Mont-Blanc rising to 4 809 meters is the highest peak in... continue reading

posted by eric3579 3 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 317 views • 4:02

The EPIC OF GILGAMESH is the earliest great work of literature that we know of, and was first written down by the Sumerians around 2100 B.C. Ancient Sumer was the land that lay between the two rivers,... continue reading

posted by newtboy 4 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 16 views • 3:56

"Grover tires himself out while demonstrating the difference between near and far in this classic Sesame Street clip! ..." From http://www.savagechickens.com/2020/11/the-competition.html#comment-1198190.

posted by ant 4 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 98 views • 2:45

From Youtube, "By the end of the 21st century, humanity is becoming desperate. Decades of heatwaves and droughts have led to unusually poor harvests, while the warming oceans yield fewer fish each year.... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 4 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 512 views • 9:10

In the fast-flowing streams of eastern Tennessee, Emilly Nolan is working hard to reestablish a population for a strange looking animal with an even stranger array of nicknames. The Eastern hellbender—aka... continue reading

posted by newtboy 5 years 3 months 1 week ago • 153 views • 6:51

From Youtube, "In nearly every corner of the Earth, ants wage war against each other. Their weapons are what nature gave them. Some have strong armour, deadly stingers or sharp mandibles. And then there... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 5 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 522 views • 9:23

YouTube description: If you want to drink a cup of tea at the Huashan Teahouse on Mount Hua, you’re going to have to put in the effort to get there. The journey starts with a 20-minute cable car ride.... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 465 views • 2:39

You've probably spun around a coin for fun at some point, but this physics toy uses the physics of a spinning coin to keep spinning faster and faster for up to 2 minutes. As seen on The Big Bang Theory,... continue reading

YouTube description: We normally build a dam to hold water back and store it for use in water supply, irrigation, hydropower, or flood control. But sometimes we have to let some water go. Whether we... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 10 months 4 weeks ago • 1,036 views • 8:15

An American explorer has descended nearly 11km (seven miles) to the deepest place in the ocean - the Mariana Trench in the Pacific. Victor Vescovo spent four hours exploring the bottom of the trench... continue reading

posted by newtboy 5 years 11 months 1 week ago • 1,323 views • 2:14